The 2017 Knights Valley is powerful, dense and wonderfully rich, with tons of the savory and mineral inflections that make Knights Valley Cabernets so alluring. Graphite, game, menthol, licorice and red fruit are front and center.
Now that it's in the bottle, the 2016 Cotes du Rhone les Champauvins is looking as good as I predicted last year. It's a full-bodied, concentrated wine that could mop the floor with many Ch?teauneufs. Rich black cherry fruit is joined by complex herb and ...